Increasing the power threshold in fiber amplifiers considering both the transverse mode and Brillouin instabilities

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2022-05

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J. T. Young, C. R. Menyuk, C. Wei, and J. Hu, "Increasing the power threshold in fiber amplifiers considering both the transverse mode and Brillouin instabilities," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2022), paper SM2L.6. https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_SI.2022.SM2L.6

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Abstract

We study the Brillouin instability and the transverse mode instability in a combined computational model for fiber amplifiers. We find the optimal core diameter, which leads to the highest power threshold and output power.